Waterbury evening Democrat., 1887-12-05

near the post office.
 DrE. w. Mcdonald has purchased through Teirney's agency, the house owned by F. J. Bowlen, on Bishop street.
 The window of the Globe Clothing Store is filled with articles which will be sold at the American Mechanics fair.
 Excelsior Council, No. 2, o. U. A. M. are making elaborate preparations for their fair and festival at City hall next week.
 The funeral of Mrs John Slavin, aged 65, who died at No 115 Dublin street, Saturday, was largely attended from the church of the Sacred Heart this morning.
 There were vesper services and rosary procession at the Church of the Sacred Heart last evening, 8 pleasing feature of which was the singing by the choir.
 The organ recital by Organist A. s. Gib- son, of the First church Saturday afternoon proved delightful entertainment and was greatly appreciated by those in attendance.
 Workmen are tearing down John P. Grau's old brick block on Grand street and MT Grau contemplates erecting three story, iron front, brick block on the same lot.
 The Turner's are making extensive alter ations in their hall on Scovill street. A large smoking room is to be added, extra
  pered and painted.
 Miss Minnie Garren, aged 21, died at the residence of her parents, No. l, PembertOn street, yesterday morning The funeral will be attended from her late residence at S:3O tomorrow morning.
 James Mckinney, baggage master on Conductor Beers train, is temporarily act ing as conductor on the night freight. William Rock is acting as baggage master during Mir McKinney's absence.
 G. F.. Cunningham of the Waterbury polo team, received news to-day of the death of his sister at her home in Taunton, Mass, and leaves for his home after close of to-night's game to attend funeral.
 Crane & Robinson have placed in the lobby of the Jacques opera house, a large handsome plush frame filled with pictures of the Bennett & Moulton opera company.
 Services in German were we'll attended in the lecture room of the Methodist church yesterday afternoon. The sermon was de- livered by the Rev Mir Bobolin of Bridge port, and was listened to with great inter est.
 Justice Dietmeir was engaged in Judge Ccwell's office this afternoon in hearing the case of John Mitchell against Mannheim Mendelssohn, the result of a dispute over the dividing line between their property on Vine street.
 Wm V. Lockwood, who put up the boxes of the Waterbury District Telegraph com pany about five years ago, was in town over Sunday. He is the inventor of the return call box being used by the company in this city. -
 The postponed drawing of the pony team, for which tickets were sold at the fair of the church of the Sacred Heart, will take place at No. 1294 South Main steeet, in Houlihan's block, at 7.30 o'clock tomorrow evening.
 In the police court this morning John Cronin was fined $7 and costs for breach of the peace, to which he took an appeal. John J. McGrath was fined $7 and costs for allowing minors to loiter around his pool room. He appealed.
 The Rev c. M. Brink, of Rochester, N. Y., occupied the pulpit of the Baptist evening service was very large and MT Brink gave very interesting discourse, taking for his subject Remember Lots Wife"
 There are a number of new buildings in process of erection down Hopeville way, and that portion of the suburbs is slowly but surely making progress toward the site of the proposed bridge, the history of which is familiar to every resident of the city.
 Fire alarm boxes Nos and 325, the for mer recently located at West Main and Willow streets, and the latter at Simon and Burnham streets, will be put up to-mor- row. It was the intention to put them up to-day, but the work was postponed on account of the storm.
 There is a thin coating of ice on the Naugatuck river up and down the valley, in many places extending from shore to shore. The hills have put on their brown mantle, and trees, stripped of their::l leaves, stand out in bold relief, 8 reminder to the traveller of the approaching winter.
 The pupils of the German school under their teacher, Herr Loether, will appear at Concordia hall on Thursday evening, Dec. 15, in the well-known play "Schnelwitch- en-" F. Dietmeier says that the language of the play is all conversational and this would afford the classes of Prof. Dodge an excellent opportunity to test for them selves their knowledge of the German Ian guage.
 Workmen in excavating for the sewer at the upper end of North Main street, yes terday morning, cut through 12 inch pipe, running from the quarry to Hitch COCK pOuu 1uo WdGor rose 1DOV0 the the pipe and rushed into the trench, filling it in very short time. The men suppos- ed it was water pipe and notified Fore man Snagg, who upon investigation found matters as above stated.
 The opening ceremonies of the forty hours adoration of the Blessed Sacrament took place at St Patrick's church yesterday morning at the 10.3O o'clock mass, con sisting of procession of the Blessed Sac rament and the Holy Angels society, the chanting of the Litany of the Saints, and other religious exercises. On Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock the ceremonies will conclude with a solemn high mass.
 The water in the Naugatuck river is somewhat low for this season of the year A man who has travelled up and down the valley for twenty years, and who is fami- liar with the industries along the river says that the impression that the river does not furnish as much water power as it did fifteen years ago is not true. There has been, he says, large increase in manufac- tories, and consequently considerably greater demand for power but no appreci shle diminishing of the quantity of water